The Clumsy Globalist

Today Flak Magazine publishes my piece on Ryszard Kapuscinski. Once again, the editor was Louis Goddard who does a great job here; as he did on the Reagan piece last month. Here's a piece Louis recently wrote for the Morning News.

Record-Head no. 7

The record in my head is . . .


'Blame it on Disco', a track from Cristina's album Doll in the Box released by the immortal ZE Records in 01979.

In the Washington Post

Bob Woodward writes this overview of the Bush administration's conflicting statements to the Iraq Study Group last autumn.


"The government is unable to govern." Interesting insight.

China Development Brief in danger

Beijing authorities have ordered the essential NGO to shutdown. Read the editor's letter for a run-down.

Ryszard Kapuscinski on Charlie Rose

The recently passed Polish journalist's two appearances on the PBS talk show in 02000 and 02001.

China's Green numbers scandal at the World Bank

The story was broken by the Financial Times.



Before the China-bashing begins, however, be reminded of the US's own manipulation of information in official Green reports.

Even without the figures published in FT, the report is rather damning.

Shi Guorui's photography

An image of Shanghai, captured through a hotel room the Beijing artist converted into a camera obscura (02004).